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Bombshell Games Taking Pre-Orders For Techno Bowl

The American Football Season is still quite a ways away. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be getting some gridiron action going. Or, at least, you’ll be able to soon, as Bombshell Games has started taking pre-orders for Techno Bowl.

From the announcement:

The Kickstarter version of TECHNO BOWL: Arcade Football Unplugged is now available for pre-order via PledgeManager. It include all stretch goals and upgrades from the campaign including: player and scouting cards for all 32 MFL teams [ 592 total!], a deluxe rubberized cloth field playmat, and 2 MORE FUN! LEAGUE 8-BIT controller card stands. People who pre-order the game will receive the Pixel Pack from Wargame Vault for free with their purchase [a $15 value].

Pre-order customers will also have access to exclusive add-ons like the limited edition 10-DOH! cartridges from SquidKidsInk.com.

I was born at a very young age. I plan on living forever. So far, so good.

Davos Seaworth

Here’s a game I thought looked fun, until I looked at the rules and the actual gameplay and saw it was actually kinda complex. There’s play-decks, and skill ratings, and 2d6 dice rolls, and modifiers, and actions, and abilities, and free activations, and half-moves, and all sorts of stuff going on dynamically.

Which perplexes me, since the whole point of Tecmo Bowl back in the day was the world’s easiest, quickest football videogame. Four plays, two buttons, and just go. Not sure how that translates to all of these tokens & markers & dice & cards & skills & abilities. But the graphics do look really nice.

Allen

Davos, this was the easiest game I tried at GenCon. I was playing after about 10 minutes. The complexities are cleverly instinctive. Give it a shot!